Core Value 1. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development.

 In my writing this semester I did a lot of repetitive development, always attempting rewrites and making corrections to my writing to the best of my ability like in the elevator instructions or visual rewrite or other short assignments. I repetitively explored different sources to put into my arguments as well such as my causal argument. Interactive practices would have been going back and forth with feedback and seeing how I could make my writing better and understand slight sentence errors that change the meaning of thing, now conceptualizing English. 

Core Value 2. My work demonstrates that I read critically, and that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities. 

I did this by putting diverse sources by diverse authors into my writing. I did this in my Causal and Definition argument, showing just how they go together. My various sources of information had different ideas that I synthesized, put together to create a balanced argument. Adding sources from diverse communities allowed my essay to not be stale by using the same source over and over again. A lot of my sources had very interesting information with knew topics I didn’t even know had existed 

Core Value 3. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments.

Specifically in my visual rhetoric assignment I did a lot of analyzing. This assignment was very beneficial to help identify why the video was made that way and for who it was made. In my arguments I tried to keep my information easy to understand and relate to, using a more relaxed tone with average language that was not overly academic as that was not my target audience. I stay in context for my essays and don’t go off topic as that would confuse the reader. 

Core Value 4: My work demonstrates that I have met the expectations of academic writing by locating, evaluating, and incorporating illustrations and evidence to support my own ideas and interpretations. 

In my arguments I chose illustrations that supported my ideas and interpretations, reflecting the meaning in the paragraph as well explaining my ideas. I have included images in both my definition and causal arguments, to specifically show the differences between a minimalistic environment and one not, outlining every aspect of them as well with a clear comparison in my arguments. 

Core Value 5. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation. Ethical responsibility is a big deal when doing research essays as the information found is from someone else unless experiments were done by myself. In all of my arguments, like causal, I always included an appropriate references list to give credit to those authors who I referenced, either directly quoted them in my arguments or just understood more about the topic from them. While a lot of my essay was comparison between environments and personal views, they were also backed up with evidence from a variety of sources with complex ideas that supported them as well. Ethically, credit was given to all sources referenced.